Ligustrum Vulgare also known as wild privet is a deciduous shrub, although plants from the warmer parts show a strong tendency to be semi-evergreen or fully evergreen.
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Ficus Carica
Ficus carica is a flowering plant also known as common fig or just the fig. It happens to also be one of my favorite fruits and the most important ingredient of Erno’s favorite vegan pate. (I’ll share the recipe soon, so stay tuned).
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Plectranthus Scutellarioides
In my opinion even the most perfect pictures look better edited. I try to avoid posting raw pictures, because I like things to be perfect (or at least as good as possible). However, this time I decided to post these pictures just the way they are. No edit, no filter, no nothing. Because nature is f*cking amazing, isn’t it?
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Anchusa Officinalis
Anchusa officinalis is one of the most beautiful blue colored flower, with the deepest sapphire blue shade I ever saw in nature. It almost seemed surreal. Flowers are tiny, symmetrical, and they retain their color a long time.
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Balchik
Each time we stopped somewhere and we settled down for a while I said “God, I could move here for real!” or “I could spend here the whole week!” or “I will come back here one year and spend a whole summer here!”
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Agrimonia Procera
Here’s a secret. Even people obsessed with botany, who love nature and plants and flowers and own and grow lots and lots of them can HATE a flower. Yes it’s true. I’m confessing that I f*cking hate Agrimonia proceras. You are probably wondering why, so let me tell you.
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Gentiana Cruciata
Gentiana cruciata is a small sized plant with erect stems, large leaves and blue flowers. The flowers have 4 petales and they are trumpet-shaped.
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Nigella Damascena
Black flowers are the prettiest, but I love the blue ones too. Blue is one of my favorite colors and it’s the rarest in nature, did you know that?
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Lavandula Angustifolia
I couldn’t resist this. I had to write a separate #ammherbarium post about this beautiful flower. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Veratrum Album
PadiČ™ was full of these tall and very spectacular flowers. They looked so fresh with their big leaves and bright green flower, I immediately fell in love.
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